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German credit rating agency Creditreform Rating AG assigned an A+ long-term sovereign rating to Malta and described its outlook as stable.
Creditreform Rating AG, which forms part of the worldwide operating Creditreform Group, was established in 2000 and is considered as one of the leading rating...

“What is attracting foreign investors to invest and set their operations in Malta, is much more than taxation. It is the standards and level of expertise of its professionals”, stated Finance Minister Edward Scicluna when he was addressing the bi-annual conference organised by the Malta...

Registrations are now open for the 2017 IFSP conference, titled Our Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and Expectations. What is more, registrations received on or before 9 January 2017, will benefit from lower, early bird rates.
The conference will be held on Thursday, 26 January 2017 at the...

The Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union opens up a window of opportunity for Malta to let its own outlook be known to Europe and the world, stated Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna as he addressed the Institute of Financial Services (IFS)...

While delivering a speech at the Malta Institute of Management’s ‘VAT and EU Conference’, Minister for Finance, Prof. Edward Scicluna stated that the VAT system can be improved on account of its shortcomings in three particular areas.
Minister Scicluna retained that today, VAT is not responsive...

Minister for Finance, Prof. Edward Scicluna noted that 3,800 new companies have been registered by September 2016, bringing the total number of registered companies up to around 50,000.
Speaking at the Annual Company Law Conference organised by the Department of Commercial Law within the University of...

Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.
This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal discussions with the EU - on its own.
Theresa May says the...

Save the Date – 2nd December 2016
As part of its commitment to engage with the financial services industry the MFSA will be initiating a series of Regulatory Briefings.
The first Regulatory Briefing will be held on Friday 2 December 2016. During this Regulatory Briefing the MFSA...

Minister for Finance Prof. Edward Scicluna held talks with his French counterpart M. Michel Sapin at the Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances in Paris, as part of the preparations for the upcoming Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Ministers Scicluna and Sapin exchanged...

The Ministry for Finance welcomes the latest statistics published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) showing a decrease of €98 million in the consolidated fund deficit between January and September 2016 when compared with the same period last year.
The reduction in the deficit is buoyed...

The Institute of Financial Services Practitioners is an association of professionals working across the entire range of financial services. The Institute's membership includes lawyers and accountants as well as professionals from other professions.

New Council and President elected to lead the Institute though the coming years Members of the Institute of Financial Services Practitioners elected a new Council and President during the Institute’s AGM held on 7 May 2018. Outgoing president Juanita Bencini thanked the Council and......

Following a meeting of the Public Appointments Committee held last Friday, the 6th of April 2018, the same committee—spearheaded by Government MP Edward Zammit Lewis, and in agreement with the Opposition—gave a positive recommendation for the appointment of Professor John Mamo as Chairman of the......